Big media coverage at CAVB Beach Junior Cup in Lomé

8 July 2012

Lome, Togo, July 3, 2012- Togolese press has done its utmost to cover the 2012 CAVB Beach Junior Cup, played in Lomé from June 29 to 1st July 2012 including printed, online and broadcast media that followed up the event from the beginning to end this competition.

Sport FM, a sports radio broadcasting on FM 91.9 in Lomé offered several live matches especially Sunday's finals as the Togolese National Radio called Radio Lome FM 99.4.

Other radio stations such as Legend FM, Kanal FM, a frequence 1 have dispatched reporters.

Regarding the private sport television stations a channel called "Télé Sport TLS", broadcasted all matches postponed.

National television was not far behind. Its reporters have captured the highlights of the matches where excerpts were published in editions of radio news and also TV channel LCF (La Chaine du Futur).

In terms of the print and online media, many Togolese newspapers have published papers on the CAVB Junior Cup as their journalists followed the three days of the competition at the beach in Lome.

The international press was also appointed. This is the case of the BBC, conducted several interviews over the phone from his office in Dakar sub-regional.

We noted also the presence of representatives of news agencies APANEWS, PANAPRESS and New China.

The office of Reuters Television also covered the entire section and a report was scheduled for Monday, July 2 in the Daily Africa program dedicated to African news. This report will certainly be taken the same day by television channels subscribed to Reuters.

Overall, the African Cup Beach Volleyball Junior has seen unprecedented media coverage. And this is the place to welcome the collaboration between the Togolese Federation of Volleyball (FTVB) and the Association of Sports Journalists of Togo (AJST) which still allows a strong media presence during volleyball competitions in Togo.